Device for bending the necks of glass-blown dose-measuring bottles.



PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908.

No. s91,259.-

A. w. HUTGHINS.

OSE MEASURING GE FOR BENDING THE NBGKS 0F GLASS BLOWN D BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED JANJI, 1907.

DEVI

lNVE/VTDR To all whom it may concern.-

. a citizen of, the United States of America, and 'a' resident of Providence, inthe county Providence and State of Rhode. Island, have device for resha ing blown bottles; t e invention being more esheretofore been successfully, economically practical ditlicultles experiencedin blowing plastic glass still attachedto it) and labor, the per cen tle, after being given its initial or semi-completedform .moved fromithe mold and, while the glass is still plastic, immediately No. 891,259. F V

ecially adapted of which is illustrated and described inLaws [UL- S. patent, No. 570,159, the somewhat elongated neck portion is at an angle to the longitudinal axis 0 urmg recess or- Inined ca acit tention o the upright or normal in the neck is to be the body ducebendsin the neck, followed by severing- UNITED STAT S PATENT onnlon,

ARTE-UR w; HUTOHINS, or PROVIDENCE, nnonn ISLAND.

' nnvrcn non B'ennme THE NECKS on GLAss-B' own nosn mnasun ne BOTTLES.-

Specification of Letters resent. Patented. June 2-3, 1908. Application filed January 11, 19Q7 Serial No. 351,757.

for bending the up downwardl a preeterrnined angular dis-- tance there y at the same time depressing a p ztrtofit below. the horizontal-team epressed part of the bottle whenin use for mg the measuring pocket or recess. The bottle is next removed from the device and Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. HU'roHINs,

7 and useful Improve-v:

manner. t

In the accompanying) sheet of drawings illustrating a device em odying thy-present invention,-Figure 1 represents a frontelevation of the same, the semiecom'pleted bottle"; being in position preparatory to having its, neck bent at an angle so as to form the measuring'chamber. 'Fig. 2 re' resents a cone-- spending rear elevation. lg." 3 is a View similar to-Fig. 1, but sho' the relative position of the I acted upon. 1g; e repre'sents a correspondingrear elevation, the bottle .stlll reto-be employed in'the pro-' notion of self measuring dose dispensing I bottles. In bottles of this type, an example bent and dis osed the body portion and provided with a dose-measpocket, having a r'e-deter- 'on'its under side or the requid when the bottle is in the 1 is a top o'sition.

plan'view, corresponding'itith Fig. 2; ass referred to have not I i b thebottie being omitted. 1

The device A embodfifig feertain novel mechanical features of the invention may be described as follows I j To the front of the frame a is ivoted,- at I), a bent or bell-crank lever havi its lower portion 1) providedwith a pin 5. an Weight w, the upper arm b of the lever being jointed to a linkd, iii turn jointed .to the ower arm of a swinging lever c i'votedat c to the uppercentral part of the ame.

top or free end portion of lever c is bent rearwardly to form a member it having a suitably shaped or concave recess h therein (Fig. 5) adapted to contact with the neck of the bottle B soon to be described. said arm 6 is also bent rearwardly and forms a flattened stop or gage e arranged to limit, the degree of bending movement imparted to the neck by said member it.

A self-d the front of ame a, the lower portion thereof having its inner ed e1 plro'vided witha hook or seat m arrange w en coopefati' said in b?-to-ma1ntain the several s ngin'g mem 'ers in the normal inoperative osition indicated in Figs. 1,2 and 5's Fixie upper Bottles of the c and commercially produced owing to the and molding them. That is to say, in blowing theglass to fill the bottle-mold where-.

offset'with relation to ortion the thickness of the;glass" at the filtlb nearest the neck is liable to be greater than that of the opposite side, being the side farthest from the neck. Sometimes the glass-blower aftershapingthe body of the bottle manipulates the tube (with the so as to prothe bottle from the tube. Such former methods of making dose-measuring bottles eater amount of .time ageof waste is greater and the roduct is not uniform in size, thickness an ualityyasco'mpared with the production 0 Iain once on bottles. a In accor ance with 'inyinvention the bot-.

in a separable mold in substantially the same manner and with a degree of rapidity and facility'equal to that exercised and lower pins, n and reserve to limit'the utthe prodilctionof a common bottle,- isre time as the adjnst'ably secured cup or holder placedin 'a'. device er portion of the neck reheated, finished and tempered in the usual.

arts after the neck has been tamed in the open cup orh lder'j and' Fig. 5 s

movable.

The

'-The upper end of re pmglatch-leve'r Zis pivoted to the fdrm and sisagfif ing arm I); The'function'of the device is-tocheck or control in'a well-known manner the said arm in falling; the

arrested by the -en'gage-- latter being finally ment of its in b with the stops adjustably.

' has a ,U-shaped 3O positioned and timed with res .other and to the unc'omplet'e mold-boy after opening the mold removes extension m of the latch l there it "a short distance to release the operating falling swings the neck-bend lever a in the arrow direction, meanwhile frictionally enga ing and centralizing therein the cylinn of-the neck ofthe bottle and gra' uallybends it and the adjacent lower determined closing the conti uous its recess or roove h said gap '11 the heated glass wa to the angle or bend yielding suificicntly for I prefer to arrange the swingthat it will become auto- 'form of a. artly -bottle.

matic 1y advanced and positioned at su the bod portionof the bottle to laced t erein, as clearly shown.

In order to prevent .thew'eighted arm b after being released to employ air cushioning means operatively connected with said arm; As drawn,1the' inverted swingingtube or. c linder f iv'oted to the'upper'en of a fine st'andar a 10 1); Within the cylinderis. movabl .fitteda' suitable piston (F ghaving ,roj ecting. through the lower end 0 the b to theweight carryfrom falling toofreely from the latch Z I pre er cated in front of lever downwardly extending cyhnde'r and ointed at degree of speed of secured to t e frame.

r In the drawings B, Fig. 2, designates one completed dose-measuring shaped bottle is blown in a separable mold substantially as usual, fol- .lowed by removing it therefrom and lacing f it while still hot and l? T e thus pliable in the poo the holder 15. It wil ap a formed at the ody ortions,

- The manner of o 'eration forbendin tially as, to

the several movable members h, e, B andsto s have beenpreviously'properly adjusts act to one ana bottle B- the 2. In a device of the character hereinbetherefrom by the last blown bottle at the same time striking the lever b which in ing member It of drica u' per part portion downwardly the pre angular distance thus practically the purpose.

ing In mber a so the moving neck evice consists of an f? angle of about 45. rod

et tUf be seen that the bottle transverse indentation or junction of the neck and the 'free or stopper-carrying end n of the' neck beingleft vertical and unfinished, substantiallyas is usual in the manu-- aid of tongs thestill heated B and immediately-places itin the cup t, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2,

upper lateral y' swing ng brought to a state of fest-,thereby for a stop thereunder. The movements of t a levers, &c., cease at the instant the pin of the inemberlb 'is arrested by the fixed etc 8, thus insuring a uniform or invariable tance between the recess h? and the top of the movable' member e and also at the same time a corresponding uniformity in the bend "and the measuring pocket '2; ofthe bottle, all as clearly re resented in Fig. 4. In'tlie thus formed ott e, B, the neck is inclined at an The attendant next swings -the weight-lever upwardly into enlatch Z thereby returning gagement with the the several movable members to the norma osition, shown in Fig. 1, and removes the ottle from the cup, thus completing'the ortion' n of the neck of the removed bottle is subsequently reheated and'provided with a'lip, or finished as it is termed, and tempered in the'usual manner.

- By means of this invention it is obvious that the bottle B, after being placed inlthe cup, is adapted to be quickly converted into the transformed bottle B in a practically automatic manner by simply releasing the weight-lever and then resetting it after. compl'eting its downward stroke. Having thus described my I'claim as new, and desire to secure States; Letters Patent 1. A device for bending. dose-measuring bottles, the same consisting of a suitably mounted-s11 porting member for holding the heated bottle while .it is being acted upon, and means adapted to contact with the neck of the bottle andrend it at an angle so as to produce a com leted measuring recess or ocket thereinw ile stillheld in said supporflmg member. a

invention what by United fore described, the combination with a fixed holder for containing the bottle in a heated state, of a movable member arranged to. contact with the neck of the bottle and bend it at an angle with respect to the body of the bottle so. as'to'produce' a recess in the neck, means'for actuating saidmovable member," and a stop gage operatively connected with said actuating means for limiting the degree of bending movement, of the neck.

In a device of the character hereinbe-' fore described, the combination with a frame and an open cup or bottle-holder secured thereto ot a swinging self-dropping operating lever pivot 'd to said frame, means for supporting the lever in the normal or elevated position, and suitably disposed swinging neck-bending and stop. .members arrange said 0 erating'lever. i

the character described,

4.; n a device of operation. It may be added that the end" I with respect to-said holder connected with, 126 b and having their movements controlled stantially the same time or slightly ahe'adpf and before the latter is amgwa a the cem b ination witha suitably mounted the speed of the latter during its downward open clip?fisbibottkeholder, and swinging movement 1 neck-bending and .sto members arrange Signed at Pruvidence, R. I.,.this 31st day with respect to the he} er, 6f ta self-dropplngof December, 1906. J

5 lever upemtively connected with md con- ARTHUR W. HUTCHINS.

trolling the movements of Said peck-bendmg Witnesses: v andsto members, ands; device connecte GEO. H. REMINGTON, with sa dleverfor automabically'regulating J HENRI P. STONE. 

